2o8 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv. di.lxxxiii.

The Ghassanite dynasty ruled a part of Syria from 37 to 636 a.d.: see Van Dyck, p. 28. Cp. para, cxciv.

Aus and Khazrag were great Kahtanite tribes, descended from el Azd :

see Abu el Fida, p. 184. They formed the bulk of the "Ansar." Hence some Sudan tribes like to claim descent from them, and especially from Khazrag. Cp. para. cxcv.

'Amr ibn 'Amir is the 'Amr Muzaykia mentioned in para. XLVI. LXXXIV Cp. BA, XLVIII, XLIX. LXXXV Cp. BA, LI.

Lxxxvi "Anas" [^\] should be "Unays" [u-tjj'] as in BA, lviii, q.v. for an account of AbduUa el Guhani.

The "Dhubian" and "Sufian" mentioned in the next paragraph had no connection with the real AbduUa "el Guhani." I incline to think that certain members of the tribe of Ghatafan (a division of the Ismailitic Kays

'Aylan) were in the author's mind, because among the direct descendants of Ghatafan occur Dhubian, 'Abs, Fezara, Sufian, Mazin, Sarid, Dahman, Kays and Rayth (see Wiistenfeld, H), all of which names are closely con-

nected in the Sudanese fiisbas with 'AbduUa el Guhani. How the con- fusion arose is not at all clear. See also note to BA, lviii. Lxxxix Cp. BA, lix et seq. xc See note to BA, lxvii.

XCI Cp. BA, LXII, LXIII. xcii Cp. para, cxxxv and BA, ccvii, clxxix; C 6, in, etc,

" Suhayl" should be " Shatir." The pedigree of Ghulamulla, as given by the owner of D i, the descendant and successor of its author, is as shown in the inset to the genealogical tree that illustrates D i. The generations from Muhammad el Gawad upwards are given correctly.

For the descendants of Ghulamulla see BA, clxxxi, D 3, 222, etc. xciv Cp. BA, Lxvi. xcvi This story does not occur elsewhere. xcviii Cp. BA, Lxxiii.

Ci This Dafa'alla's biography is given in D 3 {q.v). cii The 'AkilAb are the descendants of Muhammad Abu 'Akla, the father of 'AbduUa el Terayfi. See D 3, 41 and 42.

cm What the author really means is that the term Ga'afira is used in three senses. The first group he mentions are meant apparently to be

classed as Guhayna, 'Amir and 'Omran being sons of Sultan. Cp. ABC, XXXI. In reality the division is probably quite fallacious and the well- known Upper Egyptian tribe of Ga'afira are intended in every case. For their settlement between Esna and Aswan see Burckhardt, p. 133. There are a certain number of them in all the bigger towns of the Sudan at the present day.

CIV Cp. para, xcii, cv et seq. Cp. para, xcii; BA, CLXXXi et seq.; D 3, 222, etc.

CXI 'Ah walad 'Ishayb is No. 60 in D 3.

"Households" is O^-j, cxviii Habib Nesi is No, 105 in D 3,